when i was younger, my family and i used to have portrait parties. we would congregate in the living room every few months and turn our attention from person to person, drawing everyone in the room. it was such a pleasure and so normal in my life that trading portraits became a regular event when i left for college, when i moved to new towns, when i met new friends or favorite artists. tommy kane suggested that it would make a good website. so, that's what this is... AND YOU'RE INVITED!

Thursday, March 15, 2007

step three: share your portraits

to share your portraits on this site, please leave a comment that includes:

your namethe name of your drawing partnerany comments that you would like to share

and ~ MOST IMPORTANTLY! ~

links to BOTH of the portraits that you and your drawing partner created.

Name: Paula and FernandaComments: Fernanda and me became friends because of her father and found out we have a lot in common, including drawing. We're both Brazilians, but I'm now living in NYC and this was a great opportunity to draw "together" although we are distant now. Thanks!

Me (www.leonielife.com) and my sweet sister~friend Sonya (http://acreativecorner.blogspot.com) elected our creative project this week to be portrait party~ing each other. other projects include making each other magical magic books.

her portrait of me is here:http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/leonielife2/art/soneloney.jpg

my portrait of Sonya is here:http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/leonielife2/art/lonesone.jpg

thank you for this gorgeous website, idea and incentive rama... truly revolutionary in a pencil kinda way :)

me and carolita got a chance to meep up again, this time it was at bryant park.and like before it was good times. it's very humbling watching her work, she's really good! maybe some of her talent will rub off me... :)

here are the linkshttp://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m246/msalmon10/carolita1.jpg

Got another prozacville portrait party thang going on here. Bite your own tail did a pic of me here (http://biteyourowntail.blogspot.com/2007/07/sea-sea-and-some-other-things-too.html) and I responded by having her come as her chosen pill-avatar to live in prozacville forever (http://prozacville.blogspot.com/2007/07/maybe-i-am-gay-originally-uploaded-by.html).

It's always good to have my nuts as close to me as possible.

Do you think you could also update your sidebar link to my latest blog (prozacville.blogspot.com). Ta. I'm linking you to pville tonight as well.

If more people got together to re-present each other and drink tea and eat biscuits and share and laugh, there would be a little less depression and loneliness in this world, I think you'd agree.

your namethe name of your drawing partnerany comments that you would like to share

I, Jeannette (www.jimmyjanesays.com), swaped ports with Dan (http://vontrapperkeeper.blogspot.com/). It was my first real-life-non-virtual-human-interaction portrait party. We met in Cambridge. There was cake, balloons, a few drunk guys.

Pictures:Portrait of Leonie by Shanhttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/leonielife2/art/portraitbyshan.jpgPortrait of Shan by Leoniehttp://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/leonielife2/art/Shansmall.jpg

I have another pair of portraits ready to post.Patrick Brennan and josh pincus is cryingThe portrait that josh pincus is crying did of Patrick is http://www.marshotelonline.com/patrick.JPGThe portrait Patrick did of josh pincus is crying ishttp://www.marshotelonline.com/jpic_patrick.JPG

it's jon huck again.i hope i am not hogging up the blogspace.i am just having a great time doing this.let me know if you want me to knock it off.this time my patner is louise.my drawing of her is here:http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1425701056&size=lher drawing of me is pretty funny and can be found here:http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1455135359&size=o

it's jon huck with a portrait of my friend petra:http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1465765682&size=lthis is my first with color. still trying to figure that out.her portrait of me is here:http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1472928163&size=l

It's Jon Huck and I'm at it again.Until now I have been trading portraits with people I know but I just did my first trade with someone I met here on the blog. Sreenivas Ramesh did a fantastic portrait of me:http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1487156160&size=oMy portrait of him is here:http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1487697055&size=l

This is guy is an amazing artist and I was delighted he agreed to trade.

I didn't do either of these, but they're of two of my greatest friends.

Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Tony Fader drew these pictures of each other on napkins, and I saved them. I thought this might be a nice venue for the images, and I took it upon myself to submit them because they would never do this themselves. Anyway, I think they captured each other pretty accurately... For better or worse!

I love the new portraits of you and Jeanette. My friend Jessika finally sent me her portrait of me tonight.You can find it here:http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1593108405&size=l(I have green eyebrows!)My portrait of her is here:http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1435979760&context=set-72157602255664795&size=lthanks!

hi RamaI finally got the youngest member of the family to playMy portrait is here http://julieoakley.blogspot.com/2007/11/quick-portrait-exchange.htmland my four year old's portrait is here http://xavieroakley.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-mummy.html

Hi Rama – another contribution. Husband Roin Oakley's contribution can be found here http://julieoakley.blogspot.com/2007/11/smiling-julie.htmland my portrait of him can be found herehttp://julieoakley.blogspot.com/2007/11/simple-simon-says.html

hi ramaI decided to try and paint teric and then she tried doing me, great fun, and we'd be thrilled if you'd add us to your portrait party. thanx muchlyforever younglinks: http://60b460.blogspot.com/2007/11/tangent-monday-artday-3.htmlhttp://painteddaisies.blogspot.com/2007/11/monday-artday-illustrate-your-favorite.html

re: my friend Amy, above...she is the most wonderful person to draw and also the most intimidating, as she has HUGE, disarming doe eyes and is also an amazingly talented artist. we met in 1991 at summer governor's school where we studied visual art together. she one of my favorite people in the whole wide world.

I actually didn´t want to join the contest as December has been pretty busy and most of our family sick too. But then the past few days I suddenly had time for doing 8 portraits of the list. (But without all the siblings and the enemy I could only complete 4 requirements of the list.)

Searching for a partner... if there is anyone that hasn't yet hooked up or is looking for someone new to be a partner with. i would be willing at this time.i'm so very new to this site so please get in touch.

We found each other through this site and decided to trade. I (Heidi) started out with a pencil sketch of Anna, but decided to do something different. Anna's version of me turned out beautifully. You can find both portraits on the hidbdesigns site.

In the meantime I'd like to share these that we did as part of drawing module at college last week. My drawings of Charlotte are here:http://planetmithi.blogspot.com/2008/03/portrait-excercises.htmlAnd Charlotte's of me are here:http://charlottecookeillustration.blogspot.com/2008/03/portraits.html

It's been too long since I've submitted anything :) Finally I've found someone willing to swap portraits, I'm so excited that my sister Wendy has decided she wants to learn to draw, she's jumping right in! ignoring her fear and even giving portraits a go, yay for her!

Judith and I have been painting together occasionally for years -- she's a professional artist in London; I'm an amateur in Florida. I found out about the Portrait Party on my blog at sff.net, and so we sat down and did a pair while we together at the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts Saturday.

Judith painted this picture of Sharon without her knowing it tonight in our painting group. To get even, Sharon painted Judith while she posed. We've been painting together for years but this is the first time we've painted each other. We did these quick sketches for the Portrait Party.

In art class, my fifth-graders did a bunch of quick portraits this week. here's a continuous line drawing I did of Hunter D., and he did a blind contour libe portrait of me.http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingturtle/

Here http://arokerartist.blogspot.com/2008/03/portrait-party-entry.html are our portraits. I blog at http://arokerartist.blogspot.com/ and Amy blogs at http://amzyart.blogspot.com/

we decided to work using the same pens and paper, so that our drawing styles would be eggagerated when you look at the two next to each other. It was great fun, even though we only found out about your site yesterday. Thanks for the chance to participate.

Hiya. I don't know if you received our details on 29th March, so here they are again (my cousin Amy is very excited about joining in with this & she'd make my life hell if I didn't post the links correctly.

Here are our entries, both on my blog here http://arokerartist.blogspot.com/2008/03/portrait-party-entry.html We decided to both work on the same pastel paper, using black and white ink pens, and 2 tones of grey brush pen. This way we worked using similar techniques, so that our drawing styles would show through when you compare the two portraits.

Thanks, and we'll be sure to do this again. Great idea. Steph (Yellow - A Roker Artist) and Amy (Refound inner Art self at http://amzyart.blogspot.com/)

Nel is an amazing painter and she has been a great mentor to me when I started doing oil paintings. I'm loving painting beautiful expressive face. We've never met in person, only via our blogs and emails.

Jana here (again). I also did a portrait swap with Rita who I only know via the web through Nel. You can see my picture of Rita here:http://janabouc.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/portrait-party-pics-part-i/and Rita's picture of me here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/radiorita/2369185121/I love the way Rita captured my funny side!

Hi Rama,I just finished teaching a "Drawing for Illustration" class at Madison Area Technical College (Madison, WI). Part of the "figure" portion of the class was devoted to "You Draw Me and I Draw You," after I saw the article about you in "The Artist's Magazine." So...we paired up, took photos of each other in class (Adam hammed it up especially nice as you can see), and did each other's portraits for homework. Here's 2 pairs of results (another pair coming later), links copied below. Thanks for the super fun project!-SueAdam Horn and Bekah Machah:http://svmedaris.com/portrait_party/adam_by_bekah.jpghttp://svmedaris.com/portrait_party/bekah_by_adam.jpgYvonne Schubert and Zachary Manners:http://svmedaris.com/portrait_party/yvonne_by_zach.jpghttp://svmedaris.com/portrait_party/zach_by_yvonne.jpg

Hi Rama.I made this post over at the flickr group but wanted to share here in case you aren't checking both. There is some interest in doing a large scale international portrait party using the japanese fold moleskines. Some folks like "black vampire" and myself are members of both groups

www.flickr.com/groups/moly_x/

Would anyone like to do a special edition Portrait Party Moleskine Exchange? I was thinking each person starts with a Japanese Fold Moleskine, draws themself on first page, maybe includes 2-3 photos in the pocket. Each artist then draws your picture in your book and a self portrait to go with it.

It seemed like a neat pairing of ideas and of course I will bow out of the organizational aspect if either Rama or Marty (moly x admin) would prefer to take the reigns.

Hello! I am Krista and my partner was Paul. We decided to paint in oils in the renisance style. I painted him in a Frans Hals-esque style and he painted me as the girl with the peal earing. Had a blast! They can be seen here http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=1005346&albumId=1580097

Hi Rama,When you get back from your break, I was wondering if you could help me. I am getting so much spam in my email box, that I was hoping I could change my 2 posts on the portrait party "find a partner", so that they do not show my email address in the usual way. I want to show it as nadinebozek(at)sbcglobal(dot)net. I can't figure out how to change or delete my two older posts. Thanks , nadine

Hi Rama and Christine,the party joined: Michael Nobbs, an artist from Aberystwyth http://www.michaelnobbs.com/and Clara Charlotte, a design student from Germany. We met on twitter and connected because we both like Danny Gregorys Books. Luckily it was easy to talk Michael into having a party with me :)Here are the portraits we drew:

this is Michael drawn by mehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/50831511@N00/3082042237

and that is me drawn by Michaelhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/50831511@N00/3082886116

This was so much fun, thank you.keep up the good work!Cheers, Clara Charlotte

Here you have a portrait of one of my daughters, Lucía ,who is a difficult model to portray because she is always running all over the place and she hardly ever sits down. I took advantage of a moment she was having a rest after a stressful afternoon and I drew this portrait you can find in my blog :http://diegojimenezmachado.blogspot.com/ I hope you like it.I will send you one of her drawings of me in a couple of days.